NOAA Research Hot Items!

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NOAA Research Hot Items!
Web-based internal news pages
Nancy Soreide and Eugene Burger
NOAA/OAR/PMEL American Meteorological Society /
IIPS January 13-17, 2002, Orlando, FL
Hot Items Technical implementation is described
in AMS IIPS paper 4.4 by Eugene Burger
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NOAA Research Hot Items!

• To facilitate communication throughout NOAA
  Research
• Laboratories, Program Offices, Joint Institutes

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Hot Items! web site

• Stories are entered by authorized staff in each
  office
• Entered into a secure, internal web page
• Published immediately or at later date
• Items appear automatically on Hot Items!
• As a headline
• Clickable to the full story
• Archive
• Stories are archived after two weeks
• Archived stories are retrievable from a
  searchable database
• Searchable by laboratory/program office name,
  date, keyword

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Hot Items! Intranet website

• Panel for laboratory, program office
• Headlines
• Click for full story

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Headline is clickable to full story
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Login to enter Hot Items!

• Secured login to enter stories
• User authentication
• User information encrypted in database
• Session tracking to authenticate administrative
  user actions
• Secure Socket Layers (SSL) safeguards users
  network login/password

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• Story entry forms
• Free form (right)
• Customized forms
• Scientific publication
• Media contact
• Workshop, conference, professional society
  meeting

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Searchable story Archive

• Stories
• Automatically archived after 2 weeks
• Archive
• Search by laboratory or program office, date,
  keyword

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Story retrieved from Archive
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Two-tiered system

• HQ-level page with headlines for each component
  of the organization
• local-level page with local headlines

local level pages
HQ level page
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Interconnected system

• Local news stories can be pushed forward to the
  HQ web pages

local level pages
HQ level page
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Local hot items

• Owned by local component of the organization
• Facilitates communication within local office
• Local configuration
• Administration permissions
• User can enter, edit publish, delete own
  stories
• Administrator add users, edit, publish, delete
  any stories, local configuration (e.g., story
  lifetime, logo, etc.)
• Director Administrator functions and can push
  stories
• Access is controlled by local management
• Local management can push items from local
  level to HQ level
• Operational within NOAA Research since July 2001

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Local hot items

• Owned by local office
• local office name/logo
• Local level story to be pushed to HQ level

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HQ Hot Items

• Story that was pushed to HQ level

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Technical overview
See AMS IIPS paper 4.4 by Eugene Burger,Tuesday,
900 AM

• Database
• All entries stored in a MySQL database
• Security
• Secure Socket Layers (SSL) ensures log in without
  compromising user name and/or password
• Information encrypted before entry into the
  database
• Web pages secured to internal users or password
  protected
• Server side technology
• Apache web server with PHP hypertext parser and
  scripting language
• Refresh and updates are automated
• Hosted on NOAA Seattle Campus NOC Web Server
  (24x7)
• Client side
• Cascading style sheets, HTML, JavaScript